Maude Bolling, 101

Founded Women's Club

May 26, 1992

Maude Bolling, a teacher who founded a local professional women's group and was a member for many years of the Women's League, died Tuesday. She was 101.

A Hartford native, Mrs. Bolling graduated in 1913 from Hartford High School, for which she wrote her class song. She trained to be a teacher at New Britain Normal School, now Central Connecticut State University.

After teaching in Granby, Wittaker, N.C., and Birmingham, Ala., she returned to Hartford to raise her family, her daughter, Delores Taylor Bolling said Monday.

Mrs. Bolling was a founder and charter member of the Cicuso Club, a professional women's organization, and for many years served as financial secretary of the Women's League. She also belonged for 76 years to the Faith and Talcott Street Congregational Churches.

Mrs. Bolling was a treasure trove of historic information about Hartford, Delores Taylor Bolling said. "People came to her for history. She knew all about Hartford," she said.

Mrs. Bolling also was a member of the auxiliary of the Hartford Symphony Society, and was assistant registrar of the Republican Party, district No. 31. She had been an election moderator in the 43rd voting precinct, and had been an active Camp Fire Girl volunteer.

Until recently when she was slowed by ill health, Mrs. Bolling remained active and in good health, doing crossword puzzles, attending church and watching television, her daughter said.

In addition to her daughter, she is survived by another daughter, Millicent Bolling Smith of Washington, D.C.; a granddaughter; a great-granddaughter; and many nieces and nephews.